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T MAXEY r rei ei f 1 A Master SPeech Speech Highway Highway UE busiest long long distance speech T TUE In America according to the records Is that one which speeds speed York up talking by wire between New of at a distance city und and Philadelphia Philadelphia-a l about aboul miles So great has been the demand for telephone service between these two great aggregations of ur humanity that calls culls are arc made at the rate of at about eight per minute or 01 about ever every 24 hours some hours some loo telephone day ani and night circuits heln being kept busy each enclosing en Four Pour underground cables closing hundreds of wires In addition r required re to- to t two vo pole and lines are these messages and ond a q to carry firth fifth cable coble probably will wUI be placed In service by the time Ume this appears In ID print The underground cables used In Inthis inthis this service are Ingenious ances The They are considered storm storm storm- proof insulated a against is and encased In a sheath t h of ot lead It Although AJ Al- though less than thUD three Inches in diameter eter a number of wires can be bo packed Into one ot of them to permit telephone conversations and 00 WO telegraph messages to be transmitted at nt the same sume time time time-by by virtue of at a specIal special cial apparatus which makes possible the sending of ot many messages over ovel comparatively few tew wires The amazing demand and consequent consequent conse conse- quent rapid meld Increase In facilities for overcoming the tho handicap of distance is here Illustrated to the nth degree The first telephone service between these points was Installed In 1885 18 Doubting regarded the service service servo ice as 08 an experiment which might develop into a n convenience but never would develop Into a 0 necessary service Ice to the public The tiThe Greatest Bridge in the World bridges officially A 11 known as the Hudson Budson River oridge but referred to as The Greatest Great Great- est BrIdge In the World which will cut the Ule air high above the waters of this famous ane and lordly stream between the Palisades of ot New Jersey and Riverside Riv drive New York Is under con In an un attempt to cope with the probable probable able traffic demands of at future genera generations man nian has dared to build a bridge of or such gigantic proportions as to stagger stagger stag stag- ger the imagination The bridge proper prop prop- er will Jump the tide river In a n single span J. J OO feet teet long bang while Its length exclusive exclusive exclusive ex ex- of the ornate plazas which are planned for or either end will he be feet Its two piers resting on bed bee bedrock bedrock rock will each be by 65 5 feet teet at base and tower feet above the water wa ter to and Its floor which will be feet above the water venter will have an ultimate width of ot feet The weight of ot t the e suspended construction will approximate ap up- proximate tons supported by cables containing wires each and three feet thick Th The design adopted admits of at expanding ex ex- panning the capacity as ns necessity deman demandt de- de mandt mandir man lIs Orl Originally Its one deck will carry four tour lanes lunes of vehicular traffic and ond two sidewalks Later two 24 foot roadways can cnn be added Finally u a second se ond deck chin be swung under the th first one providing for from two to eight tracks for rapid transit service bringing the maximum capacity of at the structure up to something lII like e vehicles annually All l told this Is one of the most must d I III cult construction construction construction tion feats teats yet yei cr attempted by man mon The Moffat Tunnel A A FT Ell years of ot tedious boring through six miles of ot solid rock and the tile expenditure of about 18 the the tunnel carrying twin steel rails through the backbone of at this continent fifty fitLy miles northwest of or Denver cr was completed In 1028 1023 This Is the highest tunnel In th the world being upwards of a mile and anda a n halt half nhu e the waters In the seas notwithstanding which some of at the I peaks of the Continental Divide tower tow tow- tower I Ier er half halt a mile above the track it I measures 10 feet teet by 24 2 feet teet and was built hullt with a n point high at nt the center so that seepage water would readily drain away It Is 23 miles shorter anc and 2400 feet lower than the previous pre pre- ous route Which squirmed o I nH u ver The Divide through that thai bleak can canyon j yon on known as Rollins Pass I This tunnel promises to become a national asset of no mean Importance I It provides a n gateway between en a ter ter- In Northeastern Colorado and i i Eastern Utah Utah that that Is larger than France and und claimed holds enough coal conI to supply this country for fur sew sev several eral oral centuries oil shale beds capable of ot producing enough h ammonium sulphate sal sul phate to fertilize all the farms in the Mississippi basin haRIn billions of ot feet of timber nail and millions of at acres of ut pub public pub pub- i lie Ik- lands hands open to entry entry and and some soma I persons who people that great greul area between the and the AlleghenIes When hen the railroad Is ted completed to Salt SnIt Lake City it will materially shorten the distance between be be- tween Denver er and the Pacific toast coast and will thus operate to speed u up un P tr transcontinental traffic I Cc g t Newspaper Union 1 |